Tom Sandoval has given his public response to the recent Vanderpump Rules cast shakeup. In a lengthy and emotional Instagram post, Sandoval, 42, responded to the Tuesday, November 26, announcement that the popular Bravo reality show would return for Season 12 with a brand new cast.

In an October 2024 episode of his “Everybody Loves Tom” podcast, Sandoval confirmed plans to sell the $2 million home he shares with Madix after fighting to keep it for more than a year. “The house is going on the market,” he said in October. “ [We are] selling the house, getting it ready. Victoria and I are moving in together.”

It’s a double blow of bad news for Tom Schwartz and Tom Sandoval. Just one day after the Bravo stars revealed they were closing their Hollywood bar Schwartz & Sandy’s, the network announced a Vanderpump Rules reboot with an all-new cast, leaving the reality stars out of a job.

Ariana Madix, Lala Kent and their co-stars are being replaced with a “new group of close-knit SUR-vers” for Season 12 of the Bravo reality show.

Katie Maloney, Ariana Madix, Tom Sandoval, Lisa Vanderpump, James Kennedy, Lala Kent, Tom Schwartz, and Scheana Shay.Vanderpump Rules fans might be drinking pump-tinis to deal with the surprise casting shakeup — but the OG cast wasn’t as blindsided by the news.

Bravo announced Tuesday that it would shed the original cast for a “new group of close-knit SUR-vers who are as complicatedly involved with one another as their iconic predecessors.” Lisa Vanderpump,

In the restaurant business, one shift always gives way to another,” Lisa Vanderpump gushed. “Cheers to the next generation of ‘Vanderpump Rules.'”